Stud member for separable fasteners



No. 6l6,389. Patented Doc. 20, I898. G. E. ADAMS.

STUD MEMBER FOR SEPARABLE FASTENERS.

(Application fllod Ieb. 12, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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IINrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. ADAMS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

STUD MEMBER FOR SEPARABLE FASTENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,389, dated December20, 1898.

Application filed February 12, 1898.- Serial No. 670,088. (No model.)

To call whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in StudMembers for Separable Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference beingbad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in separable buttons or fastenerssuch as are ordinarily applied to secure the overlapping edges of glovesor garments together, and has for its object to provide an exceedinglysimple, strong, and easily-applied device which will not be liable toget out of order or be'disarranged by rough usage.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 isa perspective view ofthe three parts which go to form the complete stud member of theseparable fastener. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing two of the partsassembled and the third part in position ready for application to thegarment or glove to which the member is to be applied. Fig. 3 is asectional view showing the stud secured in place on the garment orglove. Fig. 4 is a section of a modification.

Like letters of reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts.

In carrying this invention into practice the head of the stud member isformed of two parts, which are assembled in the manufacture of thedevice and before the application of the stud member to the garment orfabric to which it is to be applied. The body of the head of the studmember is preferably struck up from a sheet-metal blank in the formshown in Figs. 1 and 2that is to say, with a substantially fiat base A,having its periphery turned back upon itself at a. The outwardly-bowedresilient arms a'form the resilient portion of the stud member, andtheir upper and free ends are united and held in place by a crown eyeletor tube B, the upper edge of which is outwardly flanged at b, so as tooverlie and encircle the ends of the arms a. A secure union is formedbetween the ends of the arms and the eyelet or tube and a more smoothand uniform appearance given by bending the ends of the arms at a Fig.1, so as to form a recess in which the edge 6 of the flange b may fit,as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

At the bottom the lower end of tube or eye'- let B is contractedsomewhat to form a shoulder 0, and the extreme lower end is passedthrough an aperture in the bottom of the head portion, or, in otherwords, through the plate A, where it is flanged outwardly or headed at cto secure the eyelet or tube firmly in place.

For the purpose of securing the head of the stud member to the garmentor fabric to which it is to be applied I provide a rivet D, preferablyalso struck up from sheet metal and having a central hollow pillar orpost d of a proper diameter to pass in through the neck or contractedportion of the eyelet or tube B and to have its upper end spread orupset, as shown at E, Fig. 3, by a punch or die inserted through theupper portion of the eyelet or tube B. Obviously the base of the rivet Dmay be made dish-shaped or of other appropriate shape to insure a firmgrip 0r pinching action upon the fabric to which the stud is applied,and. the parts may be drawn together as firmly as desired by the actionof the punch, as in any ordinary riveting operation.

It will be particularly observed that in this device a wide range ofresiliency in the arms a is secured, and at the same time the ends ofsaid arms are held rigidly in place, and there is no danger of theirbeing distorted by pressure applied to the top of the head of the studmember, inasmuch as such pressure is entirely supported by the eyelet ortube B, and no strain at all comes upon the resilient arms themselves.

If desired, the stud may be secured in place on the garment byformingthe securing-rivet as a continuation of the reduced end of theeyelet, as shown at M in Fig. 4, without departing from the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of Amer- 10a,1s-

1. A stud member for separable fasteners having a base-plate, a seriesof upwardly-extending outwardly-bowed resilient arms, and

a crow n-eyelet, having its flange inclosing the upper end of said armsand its body portion passing down within said arms and through thebase-plate; substantially as described.

2. A stud member for separable fasteners having a base-plate with itsperiphery turned back upon itself, said member being divided into aseries of resilient arms extending upwardly and bowed outwardly, a tubeor eyelet passing down within said arms and united to the base-plate andhaving the flange at its upper end overlying and inclosing the ends ofthe resilient arms; substantially as described.

3. A stud member for separable fasteners' having a base-plate, a seriesof resilient arms, extending upwardly from the periphery of saidbase-plate and bowed outwardly at intermediate points, an eyelet havinga flange inclosing the ends of said resilient arms, and a rivet passingup into said eyelet and upset to secure the stud member in place;substantially as described.

4. A stud member for separable fasteners having a base plate, resilientoutwardlybowed arms extending upwardly from the periphery of saidbase-plate, a tube or eyelet having a crowning-flange inclosing theendsof said resilient arms, the body of said tube or eyelet passing downwithin the said arms and having its lower end contracted and passedthrough an aperture in the base-plate substantially as described.

5. A stud member for separable fasteners having a centrally-perforatedbase-plate with its periphery turned back upon itself and extendedupwardly in the form of a series of outwardly bowed resilient arms,provided with depressions near their ends, a tube or eyelet having aflange inclosing the ends of said arms and fitting in the depressionsformed thereon, the body of said tube or eyelet passing down through thecentral aperture in the base-plate and headed to unite the parts, and arivet having a post fitting within the tube or eyelet to secure the studin place; substantially as described.

6. A stud member for separable fasteners 7 having a centrally-aperturedbase-plate, outwardly-bowed resilient arms extending up-' wardly fromthe periphery of said base-plate, a central tube or eyelet having acontracted lower end passing through the aperture in the base-plate andan outwardly-flanged upper end overlying and inclosing the ends of theresilient arms, and a rivet having a post passing through the contractedend of the eyelet. or tube and its end upset'above said con-,

tracted portion; substantially as described.

7. A stud member for separable fasteners having a body portion struck upfrom sheet metal with a centrally-perforated substantially flat basehaving its periphery turned back upon itself and extended upwardly in aseries of outwardly-bowed resilient arms having depressions near theirupper ends, a tube or eyelet having its lower end contracted and passingthrough the aperture in the baseplate with its upper edge flangedoutwardly to overlie and inclose the ends of the resilient arms, theedge of the flange fitting into the depressions in said arms, and arivet having a hollow post passing up through the con tracted portion ofthe eyelet and having its upper end headed above said contractedporlVitnesses:

G. W. TRAUT, S. L. FINNIGAN.

